Official No. 53461; Code Letters TVBG.
Owners: William Quack (Blyth) & Co, Hartlepool; 1869 John Manners (Blyth) North Shields; 1876 Dent, Hodgson & Co, North Shields; 1879 Phoenix Shipping Co, North Shields; 1880 Henry Wooton Gann (master mariner), North Shields; 1880 Thomas Gann, Henry Lawrence Daly & Absalom Anderson (master mariner), Faversham; December 1881 Thomas Gann, Henry Lawrence Daly & Edward Nicholls, Faversham; 4 January 1888 Thomas Gann, Henry Lawrence Daly, Alfred Nicholls & Absalom Anderson (shipowners, Whitstable) Faversham; 11 January 1888 Thomas Gann, Henry Lawrence Daly, Alfred Nicholls & Alfred James Anderson, Faversham; 14 September 1889 Thomas & Ernest Harry Gann, Henry Lawrence Daly, Alfred James Anderson, Edward McCormack & Alfred Nicholls, Faversham; 8 January 1890 The Whitstable Shipping Co Ltd (Thomas & Ernest Harry Gann, Edward McCormack (died 1906) & Alfred Nicholls) Faversham; 1881 The Whitstable Shipping Co Ltd (Thomas Gann, Ernest Harry Gann (died July 1891) Alfred Nicholls, Mary Jane, William Bell & Albert Edward McCormack) Faversham; 1906 Henry Laurence Daly, Thomas Gann, Alfred Nicholls & Absalom Anderson, Faversham.
Masters: 1866-77 William Quack (C.N. 14792 Shields 1856); 1877-78 A Watt; 1879-91 Mahler; 1891 Ernest Harry Gann (died June 1891 aged 24); 1892-96 W Carlton; 1897-1912 H Payne; 1913 E Franklin.
Miscellaneous: 10 October 1878 Dagmar was severely damaged in a collision with a large Greek vessel; 1886 sank at Cardiff & was raised; 20 July 1888 Robert Dawson aged 20, ordinary seamen from Belfast, was killed when he fell from aloft while at Seaham Harbour.
Bound from Portbessan for Dieppe in ballast Dagmar went ashore & was wrecked about eight miles west of Dieppe in early January 1914. No lives lost. Her British registry was closed on 12 January 1914.
Crew (berthed at Kent) June 1881:
Carman, Horace, seaman, 18, Paddock Wood, Kent
Daniels, Alfred Williams, mate, 21, Whitstable, Kent
Gann, Henry Wooton, master, 29, Whitstable, Kent
McManus, Edward, able seaman, 22, Harrow
Miles, Alfred, apprentice, 16, Canterbury, Kent
Sampson, John, able seaman, 30, Faversham, Kent
Uden, William Henry, able seaman, 25, Sturry, Kent